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Nursing Workforce Solutions for the 21st Century
© iStockphoto.com/Annett Vauteck On June 12, 2009, I–along with over 200 others–attended a forum hosted by the Health Affairs journal and the AARP/Robert Wood Johnson Center to Champion Nursing in...
View ArticleNEJM Highlights Cost Effectiveness of Care Management Programs
Are care management programs finally gaining some traction? On September 30, Dr. Thomas Bodenheimer of the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, published an article in the New...
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What I Am Thankful for (and What I am Decidedly Not)
Rachael Watman and her father, mother, and son My 70-year-old dad, Jack, is a kind, generous, loyal man whose trust in a doctor, a nurse, and a broken health care system nearly cost him his life (a few...
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Hartford Grantee Receives Episteme Award
We know that our grantees lead important efforts that are having an impact on the health of older adults. It is particularly reaffirming when other organizations recognize their outstanding...
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Reducing Avoidable Readmissions
Unnecessarily high hospital readmissions rates have recently garnered headlines and received increased scrutiny from policymakers. Reducing avoidable readmissions has long been an important focus of...
View ArticleDoing Our Part, I: Glass Half Full
Last week, in the run-up to the passage of the health reform legislation, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, took a brief time-out from Washington politics to speak at the joint...
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Putting the IT in Care TransITions
© Istockphoto.com/onurdongel As we age we hope to remain at home and independent for as long as possible. Most people see the health care system as an important contributor to their ability to...
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The Hospital Readmissions Debate: A Primer
In recent months, the debate over how best to reduce avoidable hospital readmissions has become a hot topic in the national media. While many are just now joining the fray, the John A. Hartford...
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